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The workfare state : public assistance politics from the New Deal to the new Democrats / Eva Bertram.
LIBRA HV95 .B456 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bertram, Eva, author.
- Series:
- American governance
- American governance : politics, policy, and public law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democratic Party (U.S.).
- Welfare recipients--Employment--United States--History--20th century.
- Welfare recipients.
- Welfare recipients--United States--History--20th century.
- Public welfare--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Public welfare.
- Welfare state--United States--History--20th century.
- Welfare state.
- History.
- Social policy.
- Public welfare--Political aspects.
- Welfare recipients--Employment.
- United States--Social policy--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Democratic Divisions on Work and Welfare 15
- Chapter 2 Welfarists Confront Workfarists: The Family Assistance Plan 43
- Chapter 3 Building Workfare: WIN II, SSI, and EITC 67
- Chapter 4 The Political Economy of Work and Welfare 97
- Chapter 5 The Conservative Assault and the Liberal Retreat 126
- Chapter 6 The New South and the New Democrats 160
- Chapter 7 Showdown and Settlement 180
- Chapter 8 The New World of Workfare 210.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's doctoral thesis from Yale University titled From welfare to workfare: the politics of reform.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812247077
- 0812247078
- OCLC:
- 893455637
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